The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
However, as was my duty, I took with me ten camels, laden with rich presents for the Sultan.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, take, lade · To what, where: ten camels
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | However | however | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 duty | case |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 duty | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 duty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 duty | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 camels | nummod |
| 13 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laden | punct |
| 15 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 camels | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 presents | case |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 presents | amod |
| 18 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laden | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Sultan | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sultan | det |
| 21 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 presents | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as my duty | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | I | ten camels | with me; however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme | |||
| 3 | lade | participle | ten camels not said here | with rich presents for the Sultan | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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